COSTCO DIAPER UPDATE:
It appears Kirkland has two types. One is modeled after Huggies Little Snugglers, one after Huggie Little Movers (with the extra purple Velcro in the front). They fit the exact same as each Huggie version. They are however, slightly thinner than the regular huggies. Kirkland was 2cents cheaper per diaper. FWIW, I really like huggies for fit so either worked for my kid but prefer the honest-to-goodness Huggies for absorbancy
27 weeks! Not miserable yet and not looking forward to this stage!
I am suffering really badly from insomnia thoughā¦ Anyone else dealing with this? I have had about 6 hours of sleep in the past 2 days!!! I fall asleep easily, wake to pee, and CANNOT fall back to sleep. I am wide awake. Its awful. Hereās to hoping I get some sleep tonight!
I was guessing you had gone and had your baby pink pony!
I am pretty useless, but still at work. My little guy (heās 22 months) is pretty annoyed that there is NO lap space for him. He is starting to say things that make me think he understands thereās a baby in there. Not exactly sure how he feels about the idea.
We have the whole birth space set up, including the pool, my midwife figures I could go any day, but due date isnāt until the tenth.
Thanks for all of the concern!
Doc sent me to L&D as a precaution, so here I sit, hooked up to monitors. So far so good! Iām still 14 days away from my due date but already 2cm dilated and 60%, so we will see how long I actually go.
Rugbygirl, maybe we will have our babies on the same day! Thatād be pretty funny. Assuming all goes well this time, I am looking forward to possibly trying a home birth for the next one. Iāll be sure to hit you up for advice:)
Butiwantedapony - Hang in there! Glad to hear I am not alone in my discomfort. I am not quite at the āsurvive through the dayā point, but I am getting there. I havenāt had any Braxton Hicks yet.
PinkPony - sorry to hear about your fall! I hope you heal up quickly and I hope you get to see your doctor asap. Please keep us posted. fwiw, I have heard many similar stories and they all turned out okay.
JLC - I sometimes have trouble going back to sleep after I have to get up to pee in the night. Usually when itās like 5 am - not too long before I have to get out of bed anyway. I wouldnāt say I have insomnia, but I definitely feel you on missing sleep and being super tired!
In happy news - my trainer is coming to ride my mare this afternoon - which means I get to vicariously ride from the ground. She is going so well and I canāt wait to be back in the saddle myself!
Plus, only a few more weeks until I get to slow way down - the week before Christmas, Dec. 19th. Hopefully baby doesnāt come late (due date is Jan. 12) because I am going to be completely worthless come January. This my motivation to finish my work to-do list!
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so, this morning has not been my morning.
Iāve been doing pretty well on the āclumsyā scale this whole pregnancy. but while running late for work (thanks, hubbyā¦we carpool on Tuesdays and he is perpetually late) I slipped and fell down in the garage.
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Raises Hand. Yep, that was me. 
Iām so sorry you fell. It is super scary and I sincerely hope all is well.
Also, two more items from the āother-sideā if any of yāall plan to breastfeed: Milk Nursingwear and Medela Breastmilk Removal Soap. Youāre welcome. 
Butiwantedapony - The back pain! and the sciatic pain! I have never experienced that before and I hope to never again. After sitting at my desk all day now I feel like I am 100 years old with the back pain. Itās a bit better if I switch to the ball chair I got, but I canāt slouch on that so I get lazy. Might be worth a shot for you though. (I am right behind you at 30 weeks)
PinkPony - Fall sounds scary, but hopefully with some rest now you can maintain and avoid bed rest for the rest of the time. Have they said what they will do since you are slightly dilated? Can you undilate? At least you are āfull termā now 
CRTXLaw, you have given me strength on this sad day when I dropped my mare off at her pasture home. I am also a full time lawyer, my commute is to the barn (30 mins) and work is in between. Today I dropped of my younger girl (who I stopped riding about 2 weeks ago) at a pasture home where sheāll vacation with 6 other horses in a beautiful tree-filled field with a gentle slope (for butt building muscles) until Feb 1. Then sheāll go form there to a dressage bootcamp for a month or two during and after baby is born (I plan on moving her about a week before my due date so hopefully everyone complies).
I was doing pretty ok until I was leaving and she whinnied at me as I walked away, then stood and watched me drive along the edge of the pasture (driveway winds around the pasture) as I left, then I burst into tears (plus she was eating by herself, I know sheāll make friends, but it made me sad for her). I had to pull it together because it was a windy road and I was doing ok when I got back to work until my boss asked if I was ok or if Iād been crying all day and then proceeded to tell me a story about a friend of hers who had a horse and a then had a baby and tried to make plans to ride her horse after having her baby, but the baby ended up being special needs and basically the mom never rode again even though she had stopped working. So I lost it and started bawling at work, in front of boss, with clients arriving in 5 minutes, because (a) hearing stories about special needs kids really gets me right now especially, just too much unknown and too much time and excess energy to wonder what if, and (b) never rode again!
Anyway, I know (hope?) that I will not be that person. Riding is just too big a part of my life. Will it be āthe sameā, no. But it will be a new normal and weāll get on a schedule. But sometimes I get overwhelmed thinking about the unknown and today was just one of those days.
Good luck to those about to foal!
Rugby - good luck with your home birth! We are 3 weeks into Hypnobirthing and I actually really like it. Iām kind of backwards about it, but I am aiming for a natural birth mainly because I donāt want one medical intervention to lead to another and another. I figure I can get back in the saddle sooner if I donāt have a c section and donāt have an episiotomy/tearing. Best laid plansā¦
Speaking of which, perineal massage ladies, look it up. Itās the worst, but I hear it gets better after a week or so. 5-6 weeks before your due date. Just putting that out there since I hadnāt heard about it except from my class. I do not yet have personal experience, but if it works it will get you back out there sooner and without as much pain (maybe?). Can anyone from the other side comment?
My back pain is a pulsating, throbbing pain up and down the middle of my back -anyone elseās like that? Donāt think itās sciatica, braxton hicks, or back labor. It comes randomly, lasts 30 seconds to a minute then goes away. My dr. doesnāt seem concerned, just gives me stretches to try and tells me to use my heating pad and take it easy.
Forward ride - That is hard to leave your mare but it sounds like you have a great plan for her. Keep in mind that in the grand scheme of life this really is a short time period. I too have fears about not having time for horses and getting consumed by becoming āmomā. From 2007-2010 I rode 6 days/wk and went to A/AA shows every monthā¦ I havenāt been able to do that since in order to save $ to buy my farm. This year (2015) I was finally ready to get back in the show ring but my new mare had some lameness so wasnāt able to do much, then I got pregnantā¦ so now I am just excited to watch her from the ground as she gains her strength back and achieves small victories. Sometimes I get discouraged but Iāve got to keep believing that Iāll make it all work. I hope I still feel that way after the baby is born! Sometimes people tell me that I wonāt be able to do anything for myself after baby, that Iāll barely be able to take a shower. I hope thatās not true, at least not for a very long period of time - my supportive husband and parents tell me that it wonāt be that way. I am lucky to have them. It will be hard, but we can do it. Kids really benefit from seeing their parents have their own lives and interests also.
I too am planning on an unmedicated birth. I am determined but also willing to adapt if necessary. Perineal massage is on the to-do list but hasnāt happened yetā¦ it does not sound fun. Iāve heard that itās efficacy is questionable, but I will try pretty much anything to ābounce backā after baby as much as possible.
CRTX - It sounds like we are on the same level. I had a good convo with hubby last night and he is very supportive (has his own similar extreme hobby) and we have grandparents and all that. I also agree it is good for kids to see their parents have a life.
In other news, pasture is a bust. Everything was going well last night and first thing this morning (even got an email just at breakfast feeding time that all was well). Then I got THE CALL from the barn at 7:30 am and I knew it wasnāt gonna be good. Something happened during breakfast and mare somehow crashed through the fence and was 3 legged lame. So I got vet and myself out there, checked her out, x-rayed her. (Wandered really far away while they were x-raying) X-rays look clear for now, only issue could be a hairline fracture that might not have shown up yet and of course soft tissue/ligament injury. So she moved to a fancy box stall and is on smzs, bute, and cold hosing for at least a few days. If no improvement by Sat, then we re-evaluate. I think the only thing keeping me from totally freaking out is that I got nothing but time for her to chill and relax on stall rest now.
Not quite sure what happened. She can be somewhat bitchy, but one thing she is not is stupid. She is the smartest, most sensible horse I have ever known and usually her bitchiness is out of what she sees as self-preservation. All I can think is that the crash (she broke 2 posts in the white plastic board fence and went through the top hotwire) was right next to the only waterer. There was one particularly dominant mare yesterday who kept chasing my mare away from food, so maybe they got into it at the waterer and my mare turned to get away and wasnāt quite aware of boundaries/fencelines yet since it had been less than 24 hours for her. She has white paint on both sides of her, so it looked more like she had fallen through than tried to jump (plus landing side of where she went through had a large trash can and water spigot area, definitely not inviting to jump toward). Who knows. Several other boarders were there and said how everything had been so calm. The consensus was āhorses <shakes head and grimaces>ā. So there we go. Best laid plans. Hopefully she is sound and can just have her vacation time at home and go to dressage bootcamp in February.
Ugh Iām feeling so fat ! Just outgrew my work clothes ! I canāt wait til Iām further along so I donāt just look fat. I know thatās a stupid thing to whine about, Iām lucky we are both healthy.
forward ride - the best laid out plans sometimes donāt workā¦ My horse tore his suspensory last spring and has been rehabbing since May at a wonderful farm. Got pregnant in June. Thought it would work beautifully to give my guy more time to heal. Plan with vet was to let him just chill all winter at the rehab place then bring him back in spring after I give birth. My guy was happy there, and I loved their care and felt totally comfortable with him there. Rehab barn is unexpectedly closing, had to move him last Friday. Now he is a wreak at new place (trying to remember that he was really bad at rehab place when he first got there, but it is hard to remember that). Sometimes you just have to make adjustmentsā¦ And now I am transitioning him again 27 weeks pregnant. A horse that has been in confinement for 7 months. Please let me get through this.
Itās hard to feel like your Horses are unsettled when you know you have a big giant priority elsewhere and feel guilty already. 
You guys will get through it. Your horses will be OK. Before you know it, youāll be able to leave baby with dad/relative/sitter for a few hours and really focus 100% on the horse again. My horse hates that, he preferred lazing out in the pasture, TBH :lol: that might just be me though.
Good luck getting your board arrangements sorted
perineal massage. I attempted and either it didnāt do crap or I didnāt do it right 
I did however start slathering everything under the āsunā with rose essential oil diluted in coconut oil once I hit my due date, along with bathing in clary sage oil, and eating a whole batch of labor cookies (surprisingly yummy). Did it help? Maybeā¦ I didnāt have to be induced but still had a small tear, so who knowsā¦
Really sorry to hear these stories I feel lucky to have my horses at home and a lot of reliable help on the baby and horse front. It will all work out and soon weāll back in the saddle.
I bought my last few baby prep items today. I was on the fence with a bottle warmer, humidifier, microwave sterilizer - I really have no idea how useful/necessary those will be, but if it might make life easier for a few bucks then Iāll give it a try. I am now done til after baby comes and I actually find out what is totally unnecessary and what I really need.
Bottle warmer and sterilizer I use DAILY. I have the humidifier but havenāt used it yetā¦
I have a bottle warmer, I use the microwave against all recommendations.
I use the medela sterilizer bags for all of my pieces and parts, works great and very economical.
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We use humidifiers religiously in the winter because we live in an arid environment where our house can see single digit humidity levels once we turn on the heat. Weāve been meaning to have an in-line humidifier (or whatever itās called) installed in our heat system for years. We may actually do it now that kiddo is here. Dry boogies are a real problem for all humans up in this house.
Hot water works as my bottle warmer/milk thawer. And for sterilization, I boil everything in a very large pot. I have some of those microwave bags but havenāt used them yet. Iām great and keeping bottles clean, but not sterile.
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Really sorry to hear these stories I feel lucky to have my horses at home and a lot of reliable help on the baby and horse front. It will all work out and soon weāll back in the saddle.
I bought my last few baby prep items today. I was on the fence with a bottle warmer, humidifier, microwave sterilizer - I really have no idea how useful/necessary those will be, but if it might make life easier for a few bucks then Iāll give it a try. I am now done til after baby comes and I actually find out what is totally unnecessary and what I really need.[/QUOTE]
Good luck with everything! Keep us informed!
It is funny, I talked with a friend that had a baby about the bottle sterilizer and she laughed at me. She gave birth at 30 weeks and baby was in NICU for 4 weeks. She said they never āsterilizedā the bottles in the NICU. Washed them in a bucket of warm soapy water and rinsed clean. So she did the same at homeā¦ I donāt think I will buy a sterilizer for the bottles myself. I put it on my registry and if someone gets it for me thatās fine, but I wonāt go out and buy it.
We are huge humidifier users in our house too. We have a wood burning stove that heats most of our main living areas and it can get very dry. We sleep with humidifier and so will babyā¦ I think it depends on where you live reallyā¦
I plan on getting the bottle warmer and having it stationed upstairs at night. This way I donāt have to go down stairs to heat up a bottle. This is my plan at least, I guess Iāll let you know how it goes later onā¦
I am prepared with a humidifier- no bottle warmer yet, as I am hoping to BF exclusively for the first few months and then we will see what type of bottles the little dude likes. However, when I worked in child care, the little appetizer sized crock pots were amazing as bottle warmers. Just keep em filled with clean water, on low, and it was an easy cheap way to warm bottles up really quickly.
Warning: b!itch fest ahead.
This is presumably my last weekend without a baby to care for, so i requested to DH that it be quiet, with no visitors or plans, and that he and I go out to dinner on a date night or something. I thought we had an agreement.
So, naturally, he invites his father over to do some work around the house. And his dadās girlfriend will be here, who tweaks my nerves like no ones business (she is nice but annoying.)
I am not pleased.
So, after I voice my displeasure, which for the life of him he canāt seem to truly understand, he calls his dad and tells him he can still come over but that āPinkpony doesnāt want to hang out so we have to do the work and leave her alone.ā
Now I am DOUBLE MAD because I come out looking like a selfish @ss. I mean, seriously. We talked about this during the initial voicing of displeasure. Just because i donāt want to hang out with anyone this weekend doesnāt mean that I want you to tell them that I donāt want to see them. Thatās just rude. And now I feel guilty for probably hurting peopleās feelings (even though I didnāt do the hurting, DH did it but itās my desire to be a recluse that is hurtful) and angry at DH for first of all not respecting my wishes this weekend and then proceeding to throw me under the bus.
And my hormones seem to be raging, so thatās obviously not helping the situation.
So much for my happy, relaxed weekend.
Argh!!!
On another note, no perineal massage done here. Hopefully that doesnāt come back to haunt me, but Iāll
Let you guys know, hopefully later this week
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